There was absolutely no way that this could be her. "Lily?" he asked quietly. Of course he knew it was her, how could he forget those deep emerald eyes? Lily just stared at him. She was still leaning on the counter, she had only looked up.
James still thought she was absolutely beautiful. She still had her beautiful red hair, it was pulled back into a low ponytail, and pieces were in her face. "Lily I know that it's you, how have things been going for you?" he asked quietly.
Lily turned away from him, she couldn't let him see her like this. She saw one of her fellow employees. "I'm going for my break right now, I'll be back," she called out to him. He nodded. "Could you help this man?" she asked him, motioning to James. "Yeah sure," he replied. Lily quickly turned and went into the back to put away her apron. She left through a back door.
She didn't turn away quick enough. James had seen exactly what she didn't want him to. She heard footsteps jogging towards her. "James where are you going?" she heard a woman call. There was no response. All of a sudden he was in front of her. "Lily, talk to me," he pleaded again. Lily tried to get away. James stayed with her. "Lily, you're pregnant, surely that means you've found someone else, just talk to me for awhile!" he said a little louder than necessary. "Leave me alone James!" she yelled at him. People were starting to look at them.
Lily clutched her stomach in pain, she walked over to a wall and sat down, her head resting against it. James sat down next to her. There was no chance of getting away this time, she was in too much pain. "Lily, are you okay?" he asked quietly, wrapping his arm around her. It felt so good to be back in his arms. Tears were rolling down her face. "I need to go into the hospital I think," she replied. "I'll take you," said James getting up, then he helped her up. Why did he have to be so good to her? "I live a few blocks away, we can walk there to my car, if you're up to it, or would you like an ambulance?" he asked. "No we can walk a couple of blocks, I'll be fine," said Lily wincing in pain as she got up. "You're sure? Because we can easily get an ambulance to come, it should only be a matter of minutes," James said, worriedly. "No, this happens a lot, we don't need to go in at all, I just need to go home and rest," Lily said, regaining most of her strength.
"I'll take you there and make sure that you're ok, where do you live?" he asked. "Way across town," Lily replied. "Well that's it, you're staying with me," James replied smiling. "No James, it's really ok, don't you have a girlfriend that would be jealous? And what if I have a worried husband at home?" she asked, taking a look at James's face when she made that last comment. It went blank. "Oh," he said, disappointed. They walked silently for a few minutes. "Do you?" he asked. "Do I have a husband?" she asked. "Yeah, do you?" James asked more curious. "No," Lily said, she couldn't bear to lie to him. "Do you have a boyfriend?" he asked. "I'm in the market as it were, how about you?" she asked. Lily knew that he had a girlfriend, she had seen her at the café. "Yeah, I have a girlfriend, but we're not really serious, I couldn't be serious after you," he said quietly.
Lily sighed, "Are you still an auror?" she asked. "Yeah, working harder than ever, how about you are you still a healer?" he asked. "Yeah, I just do the coffee thing on the side, I get bored when I'm off, and my friends thought that I needed a job, they're muggles you see and I can't tell them what I really do for a living, they thought that I was unemployed, so," Lily replied.
They had reached James's apartment, it was really nice and very big. She couldn't believe that an apartment could be so big, it was bigger than hers and her two friends, put together. "Wow," Lily said when they walked in. There was a blonde woman sitting on the couch reading a magazine. "James there you are," she said when she saw them enter. "Who's this?" she asked, looking at Lily, particularly at her rather large belly. "She's a friend of mine, she'll be staying here for a little while, she's not feeling to well," James said, he knew that Belle was jealous.
He showed Lily to the second bedroom, she immediately lay down and was clutching her stomach again. "Are you sure you're going to be ok, you're not going to go into labor on me, right?" James asked with a weak smile. He didn't like seeing Lily in pain, even if he felt she sort of deserved it.
A few minutes later he was back on the couch with Belle. At the moment he kind of wished he were single. "So why is she staying here, did her significant other dump her or something?" Belle asked. "I don't know," James replied staring out the window. "Does she have a significant other? Or is she some back-street slut?" Belle asked again. "Lily is not a slut, and I think that it would be better if you left for a little while, I have some catching up to do," James said, he was at the end of his rope, how dare she call Lily a slut. She was just jealous, James, calm down.
"Or are you the daddy?" Belle asked, "You certainly seem protective enough," she added as an afterthought. "Get out, now, Belle, before I do something I regret," James said through gritted teeth. "We're through," Belle replied. James got his wish he guessed. Belle left, with a smile on her face.
Was he the father? It was impossible, or was it? "James, I think it would be best if I left, I'm causing too much trouble," he heard a quiet voice say from behind him. "Lily we need to talk," James said. Lily sighed and sat down.
"What do you want to know?" she asked quietly, she knew where this was going. "How far along are you?" he asked, looking at her belly. "Eight months yesterday," Lily said. She was starting to feel a little uncomfortable, James was staring at her, not mean or intimidating, but it still scared her. She was sitting across from him on another couch. She started to fidget with her fingers. "Lily is the," he started sounding scared and nervous, "is the baby mine?" he said quietly, avoiding her eyes.
"No," Lily started, James face fell, "it's ours," she finished. James's eyes lit up.
A/N: Well there's chapter two for you. There will be more, just so you know. I don't think that this will be a long story with many chapters, that's not much else that I can do with it, I do have the next chapters planned out, so tell me if you want them!